The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-12-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A recent work on physical beauty
asserts that the tendency in women of
the present day is toward smallneSs of
stature. Bigwomen. in fact. are going
out of fashion.
1t is said that Norwegian cheese is
beginning to be imported in quantity
into English markets in competition
with other foreign goods. and that the
offerings have met with ready sale.
The following is the assessed value
of stock in Texas: Horses and mules.
1.19S 522 head; value. $50. 221.77I. Cat
tie, GIL, 96i; value. $4S. 1854 The
decrease in value from cattle of last
year is sc. 900. 00O.-Boston Budget.
"A man in Oil City with a small oil
we'll would not accept the terms that
the Standard Company offered him
for the produce of his WELL and to dis
pose of it started little refinery of his
own and peddled the oil about town.
Now his product has become famous
for superior excellence. and he supplies
the whole Oil City retail trade.
"A carrier pigeon sent from Cort-
landt street in New York ali.hted the
other day on the window of shop in
Spencer, Mass. Under the birds wing
was a paper with this written on it:
''Give ME corn, and water to drink and
battle in. and let me CO." The owner
of the shop did as requested, and the
pigeon, much refreshed. flew away.
The automatic weighing machine
in the Broad street station at Philadel-
phia. during the past six months. reg
istered a larger collection than had
ever been made by similar machine
anywhere in the world. although they
are placed in the Grand Central in this
city. and at all the other big stations
in this country and in France and En-
gland.-N Y Sun.
The boys on an English reform
ship in the Mersey mutinied recently,
and for several hours were in possess
sion of the ship. They smashed the
furniture and did great deal of dam
age. after which seventeen of the worst
ringleaders lowered 4 boat and escaped
to the shore. Some of them were re-
captured.
Visitor ut Sunday-school (making
n few remarks)-'Of course, children,
you all know why we come to Sunday
school. VIII that bright little boy on
the front seat stand up and tell us? My
young friend. why do you come to
Sunday-school?" Bright Little Boy
(explosively)-''Coz nom makes me
come"
-Europe's annual expenditures for
armies and flags is 1885,. 500, 900. The
national debts incurred by war aggre-
gate S24, 113, 057. 655. on which $1,000
0OO.OO0 is annually paid out for Interest
The war question is rapidly merging
into financial one, il it is not there al
ready. Only three or four nations are
left who can afford even short war.
AT a recent meeting of the Amer
lean Society of Civil Engineers curl
Gus statement was made concerning the
durability of the sun-dried bricks used
for building purposes in Peru. 1t was
| said that these bricks seemed TO I'M
prove in quality with age; so that when
a building three centuries old was torn
| down in Lima, the bricks from the
ancient walls sold for higher price
than new ones.-N. Y Ledger.
-"Is your boss scarey?" asked a
Massachusetts farmer of pair ofpretty
girls who had stopped in front of his
farm house to gather autumn leaves.
moo. guess not" was the an
swer. "Why?" 80, nothing. only 1
didn't know, and as was jest goin' to
kill a pig - Here he stopped, for
the girls hustled into the wagon with
agility, exclaiming, rs they put whipto
their steed: "If the horse isn't, we
are" IN. Y San.
WHAT'S this gathering of boys in
the she'd this afternoon. James," in
puired his mother. "Well, you see,
ma" replied Jimmy Tuffboy. 1--WE are
going to form a walnut trust on the
plan of the rubber trust. you see" II
don't quite see.'' well. this is the
way: The boys all agree to get as
many walnuts as ever they can an pool
in together. I'm interested cause I'm
going to store the pool. "--Hartford
Post.
In Silesia. recently, n man was
summoned before the magistrate for
disturbing the slumbers of a citizen.
The noise which disturbed his slumbers
was the growing of a cockerel. The
wise magistrate decided that the man
had right to keep his cockerel. that u
cockerel could not live without crow
ing, and the complainant was chal-
lenged to produce cockerel which did
not crow The case was dismissed.
j. Howard Cromwell. speaking Of
belts and pulleys in his recently issued
book on that subject. says that the
origin. age. first application and use of
what is known to us as the ''endless
belt and pulley" are entirely unknown
AS far back into the history of the
ancicnts as we can see by means of the
earliest mechanical records. we find the
endless belt running continuously
around the pulley, precisely as it does
to-day.
| "A Norwich. Conn.,, man who had
stocked his pond with rare and hand
some breed of ducks, found that they
were slowly disappearing. put where
they went he could not determine
One day a visitor. sitting on the piazza,
said: You've got queer ducks. I've